Paradise is where I bend my knees

I Pray, I Pray

```

I pray, I pray, I.

I meditate, I.

```

I Love You, My Lord

```

I Love You, My Lord. I Need You, My Lord, I... ```

My Aspiration-Heart's Peace-Sun

```

May my aspiration-heart’s peace-sun

Sleeplessly be on the rise. ```

Goodness Is Peace-Drip

```

Goodness is peace-drip.

Oneness is peace- .....

```

The Eye of Peace Is Microscopic

```

The eye of peace is microscopic.

The heart of peace is telescopic.

```

Peace Is in God-Quest

```

Peace is in God-quest.

Peace is in self-conquest.

```

Peace I Did Not Find

```

Peace I did not find in my beasthood.

Peace I now find in my sainthood.

```

Occult Wildfire

```

Peace is not in occult wildfire.

Peace is in spiritual zephyr. ```

God's Eye Frightens Me

```

God’s eye frightens me

With its infinite Justice-Power.

God’s Feet illumine me

With their infinite Forgiveness-Peace. ```

My Mind's Happiness-Sun

```

My mind’s happiness-sun

And my heart’s peace-sky

Are making me what I am supposed to be:

A perfect instrument of God. ```

No Peace in My Mind's God-Emptiness

```

No peace in my mind’s God-emptiness.

All peace in my heart’s God-madness. ```

My Peace-Empty Mind

```

My peace-empty mind

Doubles God’s Tears.

My peace-abundant heart

Triples God’s Smiles.

```

My Peace

```

My peace is my Lord’s

Supreme Victory-Trumpet

In me and for me. ```

My Prayer-Life Tells Me

```

My prayer-life tells me

How far I can go.

My meditation-life tells me

Where I eternally am.

```

When I Pray, My Lord Gives Me a Mind

```

When I pray,

My Lord gives me a mind

With open doors.

When I meditate,

My Lord gives me a heart

Without walls.

```

Each Time I Lose a Pound

```

Each time I lose a pound,

I fly a mile higher.

Each time I fly a mile higher,

Nearer than the nearest,

God the Smiler. ```

The Caged Bird

```

The caged bird

Is crying for freedom.

The uncaged bird

Is striving for peace.

```

O Heaven, Be Not Cruel to Me

```

O Heaven, be not cruel to me.

Do not tell me all my faults

To my face. ```

As Critics Are Ready-Made

```

As critics are ready-made,

Even so, God-lovers are God-made.

```

Alas, I Can Clearly See

```

Alas, I can clearly see

That my Lord’s Patience

Is running short. ```

To My Extreme Joy

```

To my extreme joy,

My obedience-heart has won

All the gold medals from God. ```

Enter We Must

```

Enter we must into the Core of the One.

And breathe the Eye of Sovereign Absolute.

Him we desire and Him we love and serve.

And Him to manifest our earth descent.

No, not our choice, Nirvana’s heights and depths.

No, not our choice, the Superman’s world surprise.

No, not our choice, Heaven’s rare splendour-smile.

But God blossoms in the world-throes and penuries.

God blossoms all-where on earth, our choice supreme.

```

[An excerpt from Sri Chinmoy’s unfinished epic, begun in India in 1948]

New Year's Message for 1996

```

The readiness of the inspiration-world-mind

Says to God,

“Lord, I shall come.”

The willingness of the aspiration-world-heart

Says to God,

“Lord, I am coming.”

The eagerness of the dedication-world-life

Says to God,

“Lord, I am come.”

```

My Searching Mind

```

Today my searching mind

Shall think of God only.

```

Today My Crying Heart Shall Love God Only

```

Today my crying heart

Shall love God only, only, only.

```

Today My Smiling Life Shall Serve God

```

Today my smiling life

Shall serve God

Only, only, only. ```

Today I Shall Become

```

Today I shall become only

My God-necessity slave-cry.

```

Today I Shall Increase My God-Hunger

```

Today I shall increase my God-hunger

At every moment.

```

Today I Shall Concentrate

```

Today I shall concentrate only on one thing:

What God expects from my life,

And not what I expect from my life. ```

A God-Victory-Song

```

Today I shall turn my heart into

A God-Victory-song.

```

Today I Must Conquer All My Enemies

```

Today I must conquer all my enemies

With my heart’s unbounded love.

```

Today God Has Decided to Hear from Me

```

Today God has decided to hear from me

Only my heart-songs and not my mind-stories.

```

Today I Am Seeing God and Peace

```

Today I am seeing God

And peace smiling at each other.

God is smiling proudly.

Peace is smiling soulfully.

```

Today God Has Blessingfully Promised

```

Today God has blessingfully promised

To grant me a fortified heart

And a satisfied life. ```

Fifty Telephone Numbers by Heart

```

Fifty telephone numbers by heart:

If not I, who else is smart?

```

Ganapati, Madal, Chinmoy

```

Ganapati, Madal, Chinmoy,

Sri Chinmoy, Guru,

Parvati’s obstacle-remover.

Proudly and soulfully Parvati says

She is his obstacle-provider. ```

Aspiration-Comrade-Souls

```

Aspiration-comrade-souls,

Comrade-hearts we are.

We serve our Master Chinmoy’s

Rainbow-vision-harbour.

```

Two God-Amusement-Rivals

```

Two God-amusement-rivals:

My heart-song-beauty

And my life-dance-fragrance. ```

A Friend of the Big Shots

```

If you want to be a friend of the big shots,

You needs must ever suffer —

No matter how highly

You extol them to the skies,

No matter what you offer.

```

All Great Men

```

All great men are not good men.

I, too, belong to their clan.

```

No Friendship Lasts

```

No friendship lasts, no!

Go your own way, go!

Happily to live, happily,

Peacefully to breathe, peacefully.

I must conquer this age-old theory’s pride

Proudly to enjoy all-where oneness-world-ride.

```

My Thought Human Cries

```

My thought human cries.

My thought divine flies.

```

When I Go Out, My Mind Provokes

```

When I go out, my mind provokes.

When I come in, my heart invokes.

```

Compassion Is God in Action

```

Compassion is

God in action.

Gratitude is

Man in action.

```

Humility's Real Name

```

Humility’s real name

Is dignity. ```

The Human in Me Knows No Future

```

The human in me knows no future.

The Divine in me knows no past.

```

My Lord Gave Me His Beauty's Eye

```

My Lord gave me His Beauty’s Eye.

I gave my Lord my duty’s life. ```

My Mind-Train

```

My mind-train stops and stops and stops.

My heart-boat sails and sails and sails.

```

My Hands Are Made By My Mind

```

My hands are made by my mind.

My heart is made by my Lord Himself.

```

My Home Is My School

```

My home is my school.

My home is my teacher.

My home is my knowledge-sun. ```

Man Gives Me Scars

```

Man gives me scars.

God gives me stars,

Stars, stars, His own stars. ```

In the Morning I Am Thirsty

```

In the morning I am thirsty

For my Lord’s Nectar-Eye.

In the evening I am hungry

For my Lord’s Nectar-Heart.

```

Happiness-Circle-Flames

```

Happiness-circle-flames:

My Supreme’s fondest Games.

```

Smile, My Heart, Smile

```

Smile, my heart, smile, smile.

Smile, my mind, smile, smile.

Smile, my vital, smile, smile.

Smile, my body, smile, smile.

You are all in God’s Camera. ```

God Is Fond of Me

```

God is fond of me.

I must do the same.

```

My Age Is My Childhood

```

My age is my childhood.

Never, never, it changes.

```

My Heart and I Are So Excited

```

My heart and I are so excited:

God is coming, God is coming,

God is coming, God is coming,

My Lord!

```

Deep I Dive

```

Deep I dive

With my forgiveness-eyes.

High I fly

With my forgiveness-heart.

Far I walk

With my forgiveness-life.

```

How Can I Be Perfect?

```

How can I be perfect

Unless I sleeplessly beg

My Beloved Lord Supreme

To kick me right and left

At His sweet Will? ```

I Go Out to Get What I Want

```

I go out to get what I want.

I come in to feel what I need.

```

When I Go Out, I Am Nowhere

```

When I go out, I am nowhere.

When I come in, I am all-where.

```

The Carpenter's Human Son

```

The Carpenter’s human son

Asks me to go out.

God’s divine Son

Asks me to come in. ```

I Go Out to See the Face of God (1)

```

I go out to see the Face of God.

I come in to become the Heart of God.

```

I Go Out to Buy the World

```

I go out to buy the world.

I come in to love the world.

```

Columbus Went Out

```

Columbus went out

And discovered the New World:

America.

I came in

And discovered my own world:

My Source, my God.

```

When I Go Out

```

When I go out, God tells me:

“My child, enjoy yourself.”

When I come in, God tells me:

“My child, enjoy Me.”

```

If I Love You Just Because You Love Me

```

My Lord, my Lord, my Lord, my Lord,

My Lord, my Lord, my Lord!

If I love You just because You love me,

Then I am eternally and infinitely

Worse than the worst.

But, my Lord, if I love You because

I cannot breathe without loving You,

Then do allow me to enjoy prayerfully,

Sleeplessly and breathlessly the dust-beauty,

The dust-fragrance and the dust-delight

Of Your Nectar-Feet. ```

My Mind, My Mind, No More Roam

```

My mind, my mind, no more roam.

Come.

```

New Year's Message for 1998

```

Peace, peace, peace.

My peace is not the end of world wars.

My peace is not the end of world sufferings.

My peace is not the end of world ignorance.

Peace, peace, peace.

My peace is the blooming beauty of my heart.

My peace is the blossoming fragrance of my soul.

My peace is my sleepless and breathless oneness

With the Will of my Absolute Lord Beloved Supreme.

```

Who Is My Best Friend, Who?

```

Who is my best friend, who?

He who gives me his rainbow-smile.

Who is my worst foe, who?

He who hides his heart-beauty-smile.

```

Smile, My Soul, Smile

```

Smile, my soul, smile, even for a while.

Smile, my heart, smile, even for a while.

Smile, my mind, smile, even for a while.

Smile, my vital, smile, even for a while.

Smile, my body, smile, even for a while. ```

With Every Breath of My Heart

```

My Lord Beloved Supreme,

With every breath of my heart

I enter into Your Heart

To love You only in Your own Way.

My Lord Beloved Supreme,

With every breath of my heart

I sit at Your Feet

To need You only in Your own Way.

My Lord Beloved Supreme,

With every breath of my heart

I look at Your Eye

To fulfil You only in Your own Way. ```

I Am Flying and Flying (1)

```

I am flying and flying and flying

On my new God-obedience-wings

In Infinity’s Sky. ```

I Am Flying and Flying (2)

```

I am flying and flying and flying

On my new God-obedience-wings

In Infinity’s Sky. ```

Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees

```

“Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees”

Frees my centuries’ bondage-nights, frees;

Swimming and dancing in ecstasy-seas. ```

God Tells Me

```

God tells me that ultimately

Nobody will fail

His final Test.

```

God Tells Me That He Is Giving Me

```

God tells me

That He is giving me

A full-time job:

Aspiration.

```

A Rising Sun

```

A rising sun

Tells me where to go.

A setting sun

Tells me where to stay.

```

Your Mind

```

Your mind can’t come

To God’s country

Without crossing

God’s Silence-Bridge. ```

Each Divine Thought

```

Each divine thought

Is

A most beautiful angel. ```

My Aspiration-Heart-Room

```

My aspiration-heart-room

Is always impurity-proof.

```

Each Aspiring Moment

```

Each aspiring moment

Is

Divinity’s new birth. ```

Before Leaving

```

Before leaving,

Try loving

More, infinitely more.

```

My Soul Tells Me

```

My soul tells me

That God will succeed

Only when I proceed. ```

Insolent Disobedience

```

Insolent disobedience

Is followed by

Endless disaster. ```

Pride Says to God

```

Pride says to God,

“I do not need You.”

That is an understatement! ```

When You Give an Inch

```

When you give an inch

To disobedience

It immediately demands

A long mile.

```

Prayers and Meditations

```

Prayers and meditations

Are citizens of

God’s heart-country. ```

My Heart's Oneness-Fulness-Ring

```

My Lord, Your Beauty-Songs I sing

In my heart’s oneness-fulness-ring. ```

O, Here I Come and There I Go

```

O, here I come and there I go, I meet

My Lord’s Compassion-Eye and Forgiveness-Feet.

```

India's Peace-Service-Tree

```

India’s peace-service-tree

Desires a world bondage-free. ```

O Light of Asia (2)

```

O Light of Asia, O Light of Asia,

Sleepless deep you drink God’s infinite Ambrosia. ```

I Am a Peace-Collecting Pilgrim-Soul

```

I am a peace-collecting pilgrim-soul;

To love the heart of the Unknown my only goal.

Newness-heart-life beckons my dreaming breath;

I see nowhere darkness and bondage-death. ```

I Am Your Slave

```

I am your slave!

Come baby, come baby, come!

[Written by Sri Chinmoy for his Yorkshire puppy, Chela] ```

Sail My Heartbeat, Sail

```

Sail my heart-beat, sail, sail

To clasp my Lord’s Nectar-mail.

```

Every Soul Is a God-Right-Hand-Man

```

Every soul is a God-right-hand-man.

Every heart is a God-masterpiece-plan.

```

My Newness-Mind-Tears

```

My newness-mind-tears

Keep me glowing.

My fulness-heart-smiles

Keep me sailing.

```

Away My Beloved Flies

```

Away my Beloved flies.

Mine are two thirsty eyes.

```

My Mind Complains

```

My mind complains, complains, complains.

My heart, my Lord’s fondness contains.

```

Mine Is a Birthless and Deathless Dream

```

Mine is a birthless and deathless dream

To breath the Heart of my Lord Supreme.

```

Whom I Seek

```

Whom I seek is within me.

I pine, His Heart-Smile to be.

```

Oh, What I Have and What I Am

```

Oh, what I have and what I am,

Am I ready to lose?

If so, my Lord Supreme tells me

Him I have the right to choose.

```

Paradise

```

Paradise is where my sweet Lord is.

Paradise is where I bend my knees.

```

My Dear Lord

```

My dear Lord, how can I live

Without Your Life’s Compassion-Eye?

My sweet Lord, how can I breathe

Without Your Heart’s Forgiveness-Sky?

```

To Be a Chosen Child

```

To be a chosen child of my Lord Supreme —

My crying, smiling heart’s perfection-dream.

```

My Poetry Tells Me

```

My poetry tells me about its Heaven-Source.

Its sorrows and joys, my journey’s course.

```

God's Chosen Children Came to Teach

```

God’s chosen children came

To teach compassion-game;

Left behind their earthly frames

To embrace Heavenly flames. ```

My Lord, Give Me Not Your Compromise-Poison

```

My Lord, give me not Your compromise-poison.

Give me any other poison if You want to.

```

My Future

```

My future has two places to live:

At my Master’s lotus-feet

And in my Master’s rose-heart. ```

New Year's Message for 1999

```

My Lord Beloved Absolute Supreme,

The sweet beginning of a new dream-life,

The pure blooming of a new hope-heart,

The sure blossoming of a new promise-soul,

Humanity’s self-discovery-boat shall ply

Between earth’s newness-cry-shore

And Heaven’s Fulness-Smile-Shore.

```

O, in the Year Nine Nine Nine Nine

```

O, in the year nine nine nine nine

Our tears and smiles with God shall dine.

```

I Am an Orphan

```

I am an orphan, orphan —

God’s very special plan!

My parents went away

To give me the chance to play

In God’s Heart a great role;

His Smile is my only goal.

```

Fat Is No Good

```

Fat is no good, fat is no good,

Fat is tasteless, horrible food!

Fat is not strength;

Fat is my body’s weakness-length!

Fat, fat, fat, fat, my ugly fat!

Shame, shame, shame, commited a theft!

Fat, fat, fat, fat, my beastly fat!

Stolen my stupendous pride-hat!

I must regain my perfect health

To be my Supreme’s sacred wealth.

```

My Success-Life Painfully Dies

```

My success-life painfully dies.

My progress-heart blissfully flies.

```

How Can I Ever Become Perfect?

```

How can I ever become perfect

If I learn not God’s dialect?

```

My Supreme Lord's Nectar-Flooded Face

```

To see my Supreme Lord’s Nectar-flooded Face,

I must join now the self-transcendence-race. ```

I Came to Be a Climbing Flame

```

I came, I came.

I came to be a climbing flame.

I came, I came.

I came to join God’s Cosmic Game.

I came, I came.

I came to flood the earth with God’s Name.

```

Mountain-High Aspiration

```

Mountain-high aspiration,

Fountain-sweet dedication

I need, I need, I need

To feed my Supreme, feed.

```

I Do Not Have to Know

```

I do not have to know Your Cosmic Plan.

You just keep me, my Lord, as Your real fan.

```

No Doom

```

No doom, no doom, no doom,

God has touched my vital-gloom.

No doom, no doom, no doom,

God has entered my mind-room.

No doom, no doom, no doom,

My heart is in its full bloom.

```

Within, Without, Nectar-Delight

```

Within, without, nectar-delight.

Finally, I feel I am all right.

```

Fulfil My Blue-Gold Dreams

```

Fulfil my blue-gold dreams.

I swim in a silver stream.

```

Swim, Swim Once More

```

Swim, swim once more,

My fragrance-heart,

Swim in the sea

Of my soul’s golden dream.

```

My Heart Is My Only Spokesman

```

My heart is my only spokesman.

It plays and plays my life-organ.

```

Helpless, Hopeless, Homeless

```

Helpless, hopeless, homeless

If my life is Godless.

```

I Am My Heart's Gratitude

```

I am my heart’s gratitude.

I have touched Infinitude. ```

My Master Supreme

```

My Master Supreme I contact

Long, long before I act.

```

I Serve My Master Lord

```

I serve my Master Lord, I serve.

Never, never, never I swerve.

```

Do Not Blame God

```

Do not blame God, oh, do not blame.

His Forgiveness-Heart never defame.

```

My Smiles Are My Mind-Purifiers

```

My smiles are my mind-purifiers.

My tears are my heart-illuminers

```

O Seeker, Be Not Blind

```

O seeker, be not blind.

Stop not, fall not behind.

```

O Seeker, Never Be a Fool

```

O seeker, never be a fool.

Start attending God’s inner school.

```

O Seeker, Be Not Proud

```

O seeker, be not proud,

Be not shallow and loud.

```

O Seeker

```

O seeker, love Supreme, love

And be His choicest dove.

```

Love, Service and Surrender-Thrill

```

Love, service and surrender-thrill

Each moment try and cry to feel.

```

No, Not for Name

```

No, not for name, no, not for fame,

On earth my life was born,

But to be God’s golden morn. ```

I Know Not How to Smile

```

I know not how to smile,

I know not how to cry,

Yet my life is beckoned

By my Lord’s Vastness-Sky.

```

Tell the Truth

```

Tell the truth, tell the truth, tell the truth, tell.

God Himself will ring your victory-bell.

```

I Must Love Only a God-Hero

```

I must love only a God-hero.

Everything else is, indeed, a zero.

```

To Welcome My Sweet Supreme's Feet

```

To welcome my sweet Supreme’s Feet,

I must keep my heart-room clean and neat. ```

Volunteer Before You Are Drafted

```

Volunteer before you are drafted.

Surrender before you are contacted.

```

I Surprise God

```

I surprise God, I surprise

With my heart’s devotion-sunrise.

```

Without Ego-Effacement

```

Without ego-effacement,

No real enlightenment.

```

Without Pride-Annihilation

```

Without pride-annihilation,

There can be no life-transformation.

```

Life Is Not Meant for the World Dispute

```

Life is not meant for the world dispute.

Life is meant for Krishna’s sweetness-flute. ```

The Mind's Supremacy

```

Life is not meant

For the mind’s supremacy.

Life is meant

For the heart-intimacy. ```

My Human Life and Death

```

My human life and death race side by side.

God’s Will and I enjoy our oneness-ride.

```

Day By Day

```

May, day by day,

My inner life higher grow.

May, day by day,

My outer life brighter glow. ```

The Blackboard of My Past

```

I have erased the blackboard of my past.

In my God-fulfilment-joy my heart shall last.

```

No More I Am Held Hostage

```

No more I am held hostage

By the wild ignorance-night.

Again I deeply enjoy

My soul’s freedom-delight.

```

Finally, I Have Shut Down

```

Finally, I have shut down

My mind’s doubt-factory.

My heart now sings and sings

My Lord’s high Victory.

```

My Heart Is Quick to Cry and Fly

```

My heart is quick to cry and fly.

My mind dares not even to try.

```

My Life-Chimes

```

May my life-chimes

Sleeplessly ring.

May my heart-bird

Breathlessly sing. ```

My Lord, My Lord, How Do I Dare?

```

My Lord, My Lord, how do I dare

To stay unaware of Your Love-Care?

```

O, Never Miss

```

O, never miss, never miss, never miss

Our Supreme Lord’s Nectar-Bliss.

```

As Wind and Water Fly and Flow

```

As wind and water

Fly and flow

So at my Lord’s Feet

My breath shall glow.

```

God Loves My Hide-And-Seek Tears

```

God loves my hide-and-seek tears.

He enters my temple-heart and cheers.

```

A New Life

```

A new life has just begun.

I am my hope-flooded sun.

```

My Lord Commands

```

My Lord commands, “Come here, come here.

Show me your face, claim My highest Sphere.” ```

My Lord's Dance-Steps

```

My Lord’s Dance-Steps I trace.

I find my own beauty’s face. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Paradise is where I bend my knees, 2008
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